ALGIERS-Idir has prepared a varied repertoire of music mixing festive consonances for his concert scheduled for Thursday at the Olympic complex Mohamed Boudiaf in Algiers, where he is also expected to sing a duet with singer and poet Lounis Ait Menguellet.

ALGIERS-Minister of Culture Azzedine Mihoubi on Wednesday announced that his department prepared a varied programme of festivities to celebrate the Amazigh New Year Yennayer, declared by President of the Republic a national official holiday.

ALGIERS- Algerian literature marked its presence in the year 2017 through the prices scooped in Arab and French circles but also through the emergence, locally, of new publishers and authors, creating a controversy around the genre and the quality of the book.

ALGIERS- The 12th National Festival of Professional Theatre opened Saturday evening at the Mahieddine Bachtarzi National Algerian Theatre in Algiers, with a programme of 16 shows, out-of-competition performances, and conferences.

ALGIERS- Merzak Bektache, Mustapha Zaarouri and late Noreddine Saadi won Assia Djebar Grand Prize for Novel in its third edition and which is awarded to the best novels in the three languages Arabic, Tamazight and French.

ALGIERS- The year 2018 will be that of celebrating the Amazigh cultural heritage whose constituents will be “visible throughout the year,” announced Tuesday, in Algiers, Minister of Culture Azzedine Mihoubi.

ALGIERS-Chairman of the High Council of the Arabic Language (HCLA) Belaid Salah received Monday in Paris the Award of the Arab League Language, Education, Culture and Science Organization (Alesco), announced the Council in a communiqué.